A CHILD was injured following an accident in south Herefordshire yesterday.

Emergency services were called to the A40, by the BP petrol station, at Whitchurch at around 4.50pm.

A family from the Cardiff area were in a car that left the dual carriageway and landed down an embankment on its roof.

A three-year-old boy was treated at the scene for a head injury and was airlifted to Birmingham Childrens Hospital for further treatment.

The driver of the car, the child's mother, was uninjured and accompanied the child in the helicopter.

A second child, believed to be an eight-year-old boy, was also uninjured in the accident.

Ambulance spokesman John Hawker said that both children were using appropriate child safety seats at the time of the crash.